Sentence examples for senior water from inspiring English sources

That's why senior water rights are extraordinarily valuable".

(Some farmers with senior water rights are still entitled to several billion gallons of water a year).

"The situation is quite critical," said Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and principal investigator of the University of California Irvine-led studies.

State law, however, says that the needs of people like Mr. Thomas who do not have water rights but require the river for domestic or livestock use, trump even the most senior water rights.

"The Indian approach is that industry should just pay, pay, pay," John Briscoe told me when I met with him in Washington, D.C. Briscoe, the World Bank's country director in Brazil, was for many years the bank's senior water adviser.

Ingvar Andersson, former senior water policy adviser for the UN Development Programme, says: "What I saw in Niassa is the best development work I have seen in Africa when it comes to supporting poor communities.

"These are senior-water-rights holders stepping up to say they'll do their part," said Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board, which announced the deal Friday.

Dick van Ginhoven, senior adviser – water & sanitation, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs After running One Water for a little over a decade, I realised that we needed to be much more ambitious.

In issuing its draft complaint against the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, the State Water Resources Control Board signaled a new willingness to confront the state's senior agricultural water suppliers, many of whom insist that their water rights from 1914 and before are beyond government reach.

But a senior river water official, Jiri Friedel, said even light rains would increase the flooding.

Water Program Director and Senior Attorney, NRDC.